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What is De-Escalation Instructor Course?

The Realistic De-Escalation Instructor Course by Force Science thoroughly dissects the complex concept of “de-escalation” and the many elements in determining its feasibility or effectiveness in a variety of encounter types. This deeper knowledge of de-escalation is valuable to both line officers and the investigators and administrators called in to review force events after the fact. All these parties will need to determine to what extent using de-escalation techniques is feasible in specific high-pressure and rapidly unfolding encounters.

This course is designed for law enforcement trainers, whether they deal with street officers, field supervisors, investigators, attorneys, administrators or any other group within law enforcement. Instead of being based on the rhetoric that exists around the emotionally charged subject of police use-of-force encounters and the specter of excessive force, the curriculum is based on unbiased scientific realities. The Force Science Institute’s research into human behavior as it applies to high-pressure encounters and de-escalation provides essential insights for law enforcement personnel at all levels and is designed to be the basis for de-escalation training for police.

Participants in the course will learn concepts and methods that support de-escalation efforts when personal connections can be made between officers and subjects. These attendees will be given knowledge regarding ways to help people in a state of mental health crisis, or whose perception of reality is altered. Law enforcement officers using the lessons from this course will be able to better manage human beings with better skills around establishing contact, building rapport and gaining influence to achieve police objectives.

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The ultimate goal of the Realistic De-Escalation Instructor Course is to more widely disseminate an understanding of the human factors and performance research data that can change and improve officers’ approach to force encounters. To make these concepts into mainstays in law enforcement agencies around the country, those departments will need experienced and well-prepared trainers. Graduates of this course can take on those demanding educational roles, helping their students, in turn, avoid arrest-related deaths, as well as danger to themselves or harm to bystanders.

Adaptive Threat Solutions are proud to have Officer Allen, Officer McKellips, and Officer Labine participating in this instructor course. By having certified instructor from Force Science, we are upholding our promise to give our defenders the best-in-class training from firearm, de-escalation tactic to close-combat defensive tactic. At the same time, we reassure that we are the true defender who can provide the best safety for our clients . On May 15, 2022. We are glad to announce that Officer Allen, Officer McKellips and Officer Labine completed their training and become certified instructors by Force Science.

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For a police-free zone, the CHOP sure has a lot of people in uniforms standing around with guns.

I noticed them the last few times I’ve walked through the Capitol Hill Organized Protest area, which is centered on the boarded-up, fenced-in East Precinct station that police left a few weeks ago. They’re mostly men, in blue or black uniforms or vests, pacing nonchalantly in front of various buildings or driving the side streets in white SUVs.

“Who are you with?” I asked one of them Monday.

“Keeping everything safe,” he said, motioning toward the buildings on the block. “It’s a private matter.”

On Monday morning some protesters and a Fox News reporter got into a shouting match, which was broken up by black-clad, gun-toting men who appeared to be officers. One’s vest read, vaguely, “Public Safety Officer.” The other was more grandiose: “Iconic Global Officer.”

If you’ve walked by some of the businesses in and around the CHOP and seen people in uniform with guns up on the roof, that was likely Iconic Global. As the Capitol Hill Seattle news site reported Monday, Iconic Global is a “high threat private protection” service for hire, from Auburn, that has deployed multiple armed men and women to the area at the request of local businesses.

Judging by photos on its website, it has up to a dozen uniformed security in the zone, who drive SUVs blandly labeled with a seal that says “Officer.” It also employs “plain clothes protection” — the photo for this shows three scarfed, stereotypical Seattle-looking people in flannel and a “Belltown Strong” sweatshirt.ADVERTISINGSkip AdSkip AdSkip Ad

Also known to be providing private security in and around Capitol Hill are firms called Homeland Patrol Division and Fortress Security. One told The Seattle Times they’ve been getting up to 200 calls a day from businesses there and downtown.

It’s part of the splintering of the city in both the coronavirus and protest eras, in which inequality may only be widening.

“Ferrari dealership has (3) armed security guards — pepper spray and AR15 weapons,” a police blotter item notes from one of the June protests on Capitol Hill.

“You talk to probably any business owner in the downtown core, they’ll tell you just straight up that Seattle police response time is not the best,’’ one private security manager told The Seattle Times, referring to property crime calls. “It’s slow if it isn’t fire, flood or blood.”

Well these days, in parts of Capitol Hill, the public cops don’t make it there fast even for the blood. A delayed police and emergency response has now been a part of both fatal shootings in and around the CHOP, which is trying to keep the police out. On Monday, when a 16-year-old was killed and a 14-year-old wounded, the victims were transported away and the crime scene disturbed by the time police got there, the police said. It isn’t known who shot the boys, but some protesters said they were being fired at, so someone inside CHOP fired back.

“We need to defend ourselves,” a CHOP protester told KIRO-7. “We need to retaliate. We need to exercise our Second Amendment right.”

The CHOP had failed as a police-free experiment a week or two ago. But now we’re seeing what fills that vacuum — namely, citizen militias and corporate hired guns, along with other armed people orbiting the outside.

It’s like a replay of the turn of the century law enforcement scene, where the cops were either corrupt or ineffectual, so militias and neighborhood groups defended their turf while businesses hired Pinkerton’s and other private guards. In the span of two weeks on Capitol Hill, we’ve time-traveled back a century.

Obviously the CHOP has got to end (it’s already too late). Even if the violence isn’t attributable to the protest zone, this situation where emergency crews can’t get to victims because police can’t get in to secure the scene is a travesty. The mayor and City Council members such as Kshama Sawant need to check their petty squabbling — “you resign, no you resign” — and figure a path forward before anybody else gets killed.

As for “Defund the Police,” that slogan doesn’t mean get rid of the police completely. It’s to cut their budget and demilitarize their roles while boosting social services. This is a rational goal, but we can already see one possible unintended outcome if the people of Seattle perceive that traditional police services are declining. Those with money will just hire their own “high threat private protection services.” They’re already doing it.

There’s a ton of work to be done reforming the police. But going back to the Pinkerton’s era has got to be one of worst ways to reduce inequality in a city already riven by it.Danny Westneat: [email protected]; Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region’s news, people and politics.